Phoenix, AZ: University of Arizona Museum of Art, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. "Where does intersection happen? Is it a peaceful encounter or a violent collision? Can these art objects coexist, or are they so disparate that they must reside in parallel universes? What is modernism? How can art transcend traditional categories and make connections with works of other styles and genres?" (uncredited statement opposite title page) This scholarly catalog, published..... More

New York, NY: D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2015. Second Edition. Hardcover. "A key under-recognized artist of his generation, Wallace Berman was an enigmatic, underground figure whose collages and assemblages articulate an important strand of dark spirituality in postwar American culture. Berman's hand-printed, personally distributed literary journal, Semina, stands as an iconic document of its time, presaging a variety of cultural and esthetic developments and..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First American Edition. Hardcover. "An urgent reconceptualization of the Wars on Terror...In this book, Philip Bobbitt brings together historical, legal, and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a "war on terror." Does it make sense? What are its historical antecedents? How would such a war be "won"? What are the appropriate doctrines of constitutional and international law for democracies in such a...... More

Cambridge, England: Henri Chopin/ Blackmoor Head Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Perfect Bound. "I have frequently spoken of word and image as viruses or as acting as viruses, and this is not an allegorical comparison. It will be seen that the falsifications in syllabic Western languages are in point of fact the virus mechanism. If we can infer purpose from behaviour, then the purpose of a virus is TO SURVIVE..... More

Madras, India; New York,NY: Hanuman Books, 1992. First Edition. Softcover in Over-Wraps. "I am trying to get the pictures to move. It almost happens: A face comes into almost miraculously clear focus, smiles, snarls, speaks. Then back into the picture, there on the paper, the wood. Look outside at the trees and leaves in front of the bedroom window. They move in the wind. The same thing is happening. I...... More

New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. "While many were drumming to the beat of modernism in the early and mid-twentieth century, French antiquaire and decorator Madeleine Castaing created her own look that was a unique blend of Neoclassicism, Proustian romanticism, and pure wit. Her distinctive aesthetic vision has inspired tastemakers on both sides of the Atlantic and her devotees- both then and now- are legion..... More

New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., n/d (c. 1977). First Edition. Hardcover. "Since the dawn of time, dolls have been cherished by children, worshipped by primitive peoples, invoked as magical weapons for good and evil. This extraordinary book reveals the many aspects of the doll through the superb photography of H. Landshoff, whose photographs for Abrams' The Shell have received great critical acclaim, and the text and commentaries of..... More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "The appearance of this book has marked a new departure in publishing history. For the first time, a publisher and an author have collaborated to keep a book on current events as completely up-to-date as the events themselves. When Inside Europe first appeared, Edward VIII had just mounted the throne, the Spanish revolution was unheard of, the Front Populaire..... More

New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other. Over the course of a generation, the..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A fascinating, well-researched scholarly essay by Mike Andrews that focuses on the parallel lives & works of respective American literary & musical giants Jack Kerouac & Miles Davis. Direct references to Davis & Co. (esp. Charlie Parker) live & on record in Kerouac's works are noted, & there is a general thread of comparing their separate lives at identical..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin Inc., 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Robert MacNeil. "In Wordstruck, Robert MacNeil hauntingly and poignantly re-creates his own youth, his own growing love of words, the world they opened up to him, the experiences they enriched. Delving into his past to unearth these treasured experiences, he recaptures the lost world of his childhood. MacNeil's delight infuses his own words with magic, with..... More

New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1946. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. "Franklin Roosevelt was not a simple man...He was the most complicated human being I ever knew; and out of this complicated nature there sprang much of the drive which brought achievement, much of the sympathy which made him like, and liked by, such oddly different types of people, much of the detachment which enabled him to forget his..... More

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House, Inc., 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "More than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt remains the most deeply loved of all the great masters of painting, his face so familiar to us from the self-portraits painted at every stage in his life, yet still so mysterious. As with Shakespeare, the facts of his life are hard to come by...Rembrandt's Eyes, about which Simon..... More